LAND OFFICE OFFICERS RETURNS OF SURVEYS
Act of Mar. 13, 1817, P.L. 113, No. 91
AN ACT
To authorise the officers of the Land Office to accept returns
of surveys and direct patents to issue, where an excess of
more than ten percent is returned.
Section 1. Board of Property authorized to direct warrants
of acceptance
From and after the passage of this act, the Board of Property
be and they are hereby authorized and required to direct
warrants of acceptance and patents to issue on any surveys
regularly made or to be made in pursuance of any warrant,
location, actual settlement or order of survey, although such
survey may contain a greater surplus than ten per cent. Beyond
the quantity mentioned in such warrant, location or order:
provided, that such surplus quantity shall not exceed one
hundred acres; and that the party procuring such return to be
made, shall forthwith pay into the State Treasury the price of
such surplus land, with interest, at the same rate at which the
said warrant, location or order may have been taken out, except
in all cases of warrants taken out at fifty shillings per
hundred acres, in which cases the price of such surplus land
shall be at the rate of twenty-six dollars and sixty-six cents
per hundred acres: And provided also, that no acceptance of any
survey shall in any case prejudice or affect the right or title
of any other person in or to such surplus land, which may have
accrued or commenced by warrant or actual settlement prior to
such acceptance. 1817, March 13, P.L. 113, 6 sm.1. 427, Sec. 1.
Cl. 68